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Mon, Dec 15, 2003

perlIBIS: The Virtue of Thinking Out Loud #

Read DannyAyers's blog this morning, and saw an entry describing KenMacLeod's recent experiment with IBIS DialogMapping. I took a look, and was surprised and thrilled at what I saw. Ken had used (and improved) perlIBIS, which I had written and last released two years ago. (JU)

I note this not just because I'm pleased (I am), but because it also shows the importance of knowledge capture and thinking out loud. I had announced this work to members of the small DialogMapping community, and had received some positive feedback but little else. That was fine; my motivation in writing the tool was to ScratchYourOwnItch and experiment with some ideas, and I accomplished that. That said, it was gratifying to see that the ideas and the tool had propagated outside of that community, and that someone else was doing something valuable with it. (JV)

Perhaps this will be the kick in the pants I need to finally write up some of my notes on DialogMapping, both for synchronous and asynchronous collaboration. (JW)

/collaboration/tools | Posted at 8:35pm

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